city wide. the rates of obesity in kindergarten -age produced 5.8%. this is in just four years. you can make a difference. other places like philadelphia and the state of mississippi are beginning to see meaningful progress in reducing childhood weight problems. stopping routine selling of junk food at school reinforces the message to children that they need to adopt healthier eating and exercise habits that hopefully will last a lifetime. we cannot succeed in helping them eat healthier foods while selling $400 billion of calories in our school every year. mission readiness strongly supports the fda efforts to reduce junk food at school by adopting gold standards for food sold and school vending machines and snack lines. that is why more than 200 retired officers signed a petition for which the usda will update the standards. removing junk food from our school to be part of a comprehensive action involving parents, schools and communities to help make healthy food choices. as you have heard, obe